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Case Study: The Development of a Mental Health Policy

In: Managing Ambiguity and Change

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  • Sue Dopson

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This chapter documents how a District’ General Manager (DGM) sought to improve mental health services in his district and the problems he encountered. The analysis counterposes the DGM’s relatively involved perception of these problems with an understanding of these problems as revealed by a relatively detached, sociological analysis. The case study is intended to illuminate the process-sociological approach which, it has been argued, is helpful in understanding a common aspect of managed change, namely unplanned outcomes.1

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  • Sue Dopson, 1997. "Case Study: The Development of a Mental Health Policy," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Managing Ambiguity and Change, chapter 6, pages 121-142, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37514-7_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230375147_6
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